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perversion

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff...More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Narrator: You ever notice what a bad rap the Inquisition gets? Even some Christians today think it was a bad idea. But how could it be a bad idea? If the Bible is right, aren't the stakes as high as they can be? If a little suffering here on Earth saves more souls for all eternity, isn't that a good thing? The Inquisition was not a perversion of Christian doctrine. The Inquisition was an expression of Christian doctrine.More [12/26/2007 12:12:00]

Boss Benta: Boss Tanaka! What is the meaning of this outburst? This is a time for celebration.
Boss Tanaka: And what exactly are we celebrating? The perversion of our illustrious council?
Boss Honda: Tanaka, have you gone mad? I will not tolerate this! You're disrespecting our sister! Apologize!
O-Ren Ishii: Tanaka-san, of what perversion do you speak?
Boss Tanaka: My father...
[to Benta]
Boss Tanaka: along with yours...
[to Ozawah]
Boss Tanaka: and along with yours, started this council. And while you laugh like stupid donkeys, they weep in the afterlife over the perversion committed today.
Boss Ozawah: Outrageous! Tanaka, it is you who insults this council!
[Throws rag at him]
Boss Ozawah: Bastard!
Boss Tanaka: [Throws rag back] Fuck face!
O-Ren Ishii: Gentlemen. Tanaka obvious has something on his mind. By all means, allow him to express it.
Boss Tanaka: [Last words] I speak, of the perversion done to this council... which I love... more than my own children, by making a Chinese Jap-American half-breed bitch its leader!
[O-Ren quickly runs across the table and cuts off his head]More [05/29/2008 12:05:00]

Professor Zimmer:
When the devil attacks a man or woman with this foul disease of the vampire the unfortunate human being can do one of two things. Either he can seek God through the church and pray for absolution or he can persuade himself that his filthy perversion is some kind of new and wonderful experience to be shared by the favoured few. Then he tries to persuade others to join his new cult.

Doug Neidermeyer:
And most recently of all, a "Roman Toga Party" was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.More [07/15/2011 09:07:18]

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.More [08/10/2011 11:08:38]

The trial would be the most significant in the last 30 years. This case symbolizes the Nazi perversion of medicine and science, and the application of medicine to commit the most horrible atrocities.More [10/10/2012 03:10:00]

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.More [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.More [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.More [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.More [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.More [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.More [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw, With graceless toil of beak and added claw, The meagre food that scarce thy want allays! And this--to gratify the gloating gaze Of fools, who value Nature not a straw, But know to prize the infraction of her law An hard perversion of her creatures' ways! Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Beginning a short series on sin: Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him. ... Theologia Germanica March 10, 1998 Continuing a short series on sin: I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things. ... The Confessions of St. Augustine March 11, 1998 Continuing a short series on sin: In case our sins have been public and scandalMore [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. They're full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant God haters. They are heartless. They are faithless. They are senseless. They are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the sMore [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.More [03/29/2018 05:03:36]